Example sentences of "[adv] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
2 | Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth . |
3 | All I want to see you better back to school and back to your fitness again . |
4 | Except it was different this time , Jessamy reminded herself as she pulled herself slowly and painfully back to reality . |
5 | So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know . |
6 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |
7 | Anyway back to work . |
8 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
9 | They flew out fast , located the target with the aid of their radar equipment , dropped their coloured indicators to show the heavy boys where to go , and then nipped smartly back to base . |
10 | There was an expression on his face that she could n't quite fathom , so she brought the conversation smartly back to business . |
11 | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr 's Cottage . |
12 | As we dozed off , we heard the sound of approaching footsteps and voices , which jerked us quickly back to life . |
13 | There was a curious magnetism about him that , for one brief moment , caused her heart to miss a beat , but a blast on the horn of an impatient motorist behind her brought her quickly back to reality . |
14 | She looked as if she wanted to go back in but her mum kissed her goodbye and shut the door flat in her face and went off back to bed . |
15 | We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . |
16 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
17 | Only to wake up back to reality with a small , secret smile on her lips . |
18 | And the baby converts it straight back to blubber . |
19 | he went straight back to work |
20 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
21 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
22 | These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't . |
23 | There is not much other evidence for any kind of standing army : the classic historians of the fifth century speak of the Ten Thousand ‘ Immortals ’ , but that word is now thought to be a mistranslation of an Old Persian word meaning ‘ followers ’ , which takes one straight back to feudalism . |
24 | Skippety-hop , straight back to trauma land and the mangrove swamps of misery . ’ |
25 | The old man 's voice cut through his sexual heat , brought him straight back to earth . |
26 | At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business . |
27 | ‘ You 'll go right back to school on Monday morning and finish Grade 12 . |
28 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
29 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
30 | ‘ So you 'll be right back to nature , and let us hope that the natives are friendly . ’ |